In 1790, the First Congress debated and decided issues such as buying land for what became the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, providing financially for those widowed by the Revolution, setting up the post office...
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Hope in Christ, John Witherspoon on the Lord’s Supper
The following sermon by John Witherspoon is titled, “The Believer Going to God as His Exceeding Joy,” using the text Psalm 43:4. The occasion for the sermon was a service including the Lord’s Supper. There are many...
John Witherspoon Statue, U.S. Centennial, Philadelphia, 1876
The International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine was held in 1876 to commemorate achieving American independence one hundred years earlier. Fortunately, it has come to be known more...
James W. Alexander, Kind Hearted Princetonian
James Waddell was born to Archibald and Janetta (Waddell) Alexander in Louisa County, Virginia, March 13, 1804. His ancestry provided direction for who he would become. He was named for his mother’s father, James...
Joseph D. Smith, 1828-1906
Joseph Davis was born May 30, 1828 to David and Jane (Davis) Smith at Moys, Londenderry County, Ireland. When he was nineteen years of age his parents and three siblings—William, David, and Martha—moved to America and...
George Junkin, 1790-1868
George was born November 1, 1790, to Joseph and Eleanor (Cochran) Junkin on the family farm near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Eleanor Junkin was surely a busy mother because her fourteen children would have required every...
